"It was a big mistake!" Chase said when asked why he made the leap
from movies to television to play millionaire Pierce Hawthorne on the
show. "I saw this pilot script, thought that it was funny, and I went
into the room where they were casting and said, 'I would love to play
this guy.' Then they mulled it over. Then they hired me and I just sort
of hung around because I have three daughters and a wife, and I figured
out I might as well make some bread every week. ... [But] the hours in
this kind of show are not commensurate with the actual product."

Chase's disdain apparently extends beyond Community to the entire genre.

"The hours are hideous, and it's still a sitcom on television, which is probably the lowest form of television," he told the Huffington Post UK.
"I think the reason I have stuck around is because I love these kids,
the cast - they are very good. It's not like I am working with the great
innovators of all time, but at the same time, they are my friends."

Specifically, Chase said he's not a fan of having to stay confined to
the college setting, and that he prefers episodes that take place
outside, such as the paintball episodes.

"One of the things that bothers me about our show is that it is
placed in that study room all the time, with the same light, the same
color - that's not interesting to see," he said. "It's just joke after
joke after joke around that table. It's hard to shoot it all the time in
the same way, the same thing."

It's not the first time Chase has stirred up controversy on the show. His previous feud with fired showrunner Dan Harmon resulted in Harmon cursing at Chase during the show's wrap party and
putting angry voicemails from the actor on public display.